Using EU-SILC data for 2005 and 2011, we compare the role of family background on labour outcomes in three EU countries … that experienced large swings in unemployment during this period. We use a multidimensional family background indicator … that avoids undesirable cohort effects. Our results suggest that family background affects employment prospects and job …

, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over-education …While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral … have earned in a job corresponding to their level of education. Using a unique pan-European dataset, we rely on two …

, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over-education …While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral … have earned in a job corresponding to their level of education. Using a unique pan-European dataset, we rely on two …

Despite evidence that immigrants experience a higher incidence of over-education, relatively few studies have … considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using longitudinal data and penalized quantile panel … regression, we inspect the earnings effects of job mismatches for immigrants in Australia. This first application of the method …

regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education … to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in specific fields of study are more valuable for some jobs compared to … this premise in mind, this paper aims to estimate the effect of the quality of this education-occupation job match on …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life … group of elite families in the nineteenth century and earlier, the oldest son was advantaged in terms of wealth, education …

Education is often regarded as a route to social mobility. For this to be the case, however, the link between family … background and adult outcomes must be broken (or at least reduced) once we take account of an individual's education history …' earnings by socio-economic background, with a particular focus on whether they attended a private school. We use data on the …

We investigate the relationship between child socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using longitudinal data … from the 1970 British Cohort Study. We perform a novel factor analysis of child skills and capture four latent dimensions …: higher wages, higher labour supply, sorting into "good" jobs and higher productivity conditional on job tasks. Attention …